The assimilation of Western medicine into a semi-nomadic healthcare system: a case study of the Indigenous Aeta Magbukún, Philippines.

abstract：:Most analyses dealing with the geographical distribution of the chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) have been performed on large geographical scales and data on more localized distribution of the chytrid within catchments are scarce. In this study, we compare the prevalence and intensity of infection of ch...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Van Sluys M,Hero JM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giardia duodenalis is an intestinal parasite which causes diarrhoeal illness in people. Zoonotic subtypes found in livestock may contribute to human disease occurrence through runoff of manure into multi-use surface water. This study investigated temporal associations among selected environmental variables and G. duod...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Brunn A,Fisman DN,Sargeant JM,Greer AL

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slaughtering sick poultry is a risk factor for human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza and is a common practice in Bangladesh. This paper describes human exposures to poultry during slaughtering process and the customs and rituals influencing these practices in two Bangladeshi rural communities. In 2009...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Rimi NA,Sultana R,Ishtiak-Ahmed K,Khan SU,Sharker MA,Uz Zaman R,Azziz-Baumgartner E,Gurley ES,Nahar N,Luby SP

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly, population- and ecosystem-level health assessments are performed using sophisticated molecular tools. Advances in molecular technology enable the identification of synergistic effects of multiple stressors on the individual physiology of different species. Brown bears (Ursus arctos) are an apex predator;...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Bowen L,Miles AK,Waters S,Gustine D,Joly K,Hilderbrand G

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), has devastated biodiversity and ecosystem health and is implicated as a driver of mass amphibian extinctions. This 100-year study investigates which environmental factors contribute to Bd prevalence in a fully terrestrial species, and determines whether infecti...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Sette CM,Vredenburg VT,Zink AG

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessments of ecological integrity have become commonplace for biological conservation, but their role for public health analysis remains largely unexplored. We tested the prediction that the ecological integrity of streams would provide an indicator of human cancer mortality rates in West Virginia, USA. We character...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Hitt NP,Hendryx M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of direct evidence, an imagined "cut hunter" stands in for the index patient of pandemic HIV/AIDS. During the early years of colonial rule, this explanation goes, a hunter was cut or injured from hunting or butchering a chimpanzee infected with simian immunodeficiency virus, resulting in the first susta...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Rupp S,Ambata P,Narat V,Giles-Vernick T

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global trade in illegal wildlife is a multi-billion dollar industry that threatens biodiversity and acts as a potential avenue for invasive species and disease spread. Despite the broad-sweeping implications of illegal wildlife sales, scientists have yet to describe the scope and scale of the trade. Here, we provi...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Rosen GE,Smith KF

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease transmitted to humans and animals by direct or indirect contact with urine or body fluids from infected animals especially rodents. Infection can be associated with wide clinical spectrum varying from asymptomatic to severe multi-organ syndrome with life-threatening consequences. W...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Garba B,Bahaman AR,Khairani-Bejo S,Zakaria Z,Mutalib AR

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vampire bats are the only mammals known to feed exclusively on blood from other animals, often from domestic cattle. We tested the hypothesis that the adaptation of vampire bats to hematophagy would have resulted in shared viral communities among vampire bats and cattle, as a direct result of historic spillover events...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Escalera-Zamudio M,Taboada B,Rojas-Anaya E,Löber U,Loza-Rubio E,Arias CF,Greenwood AD

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the collapse of the Cuban economy in the early 1990s, epidemiologists in the Cuban Ministry of Health noticed dramatic increases in reported outbreaks of ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) in some coastal communities. This article summarizes the results of a comparative case study which applied an ecosystem appr...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Morrison K,Aguiar Prieto P,Castro Domínguez A,Waltner-Toews D,Fitzgibbon J

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sin Nombre virus (SNV) causes hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) in humans. Transmission of SNV among the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) host predominates during spring and summer, and is greater in peridomestic than sylvan settings where, protected from UV light, SNV may survive longer. Incidence of HCPS...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Cline BJ,Carver S,Douglass RJ

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine turtle fibropapillomatosis (FP) is a devastating neoplastic disease characterized by single or multiple cutaneous and visceral fibrovascular tumors. Chelonid alphaherpesvirus 5 (ChHV5) has been identified as the most likely etiologic agent. From 2010 to 2013, the presence of ChHV5 DNA was determined in apparent...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Chaves A,Aguirre AA,Blanco-Peña K,Moreira-Soto A,Monge O,Torres AM,Soto-Rivas JL,Lu Y,Chacón D,Fonseca L,Jiménez M,Gutiérrez-Espeleta G,Lierz M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many of the world's poor, aquatic products are critical for food security and health. Because the global population is increasing as wild aquatic stocks are declining, aquaculture is an increasingly important source of aquatic products. We undertook a scoping review of the English-language peer-reviewed literature...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Burns TE,Wade J,Stephen C,Toews L

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plague impacts prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.), the endangered black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) and other sensitive wildlife species. We compared efficacy of prophylactic treatments (burrow dusting with deltamethrin or oral vaccination with recombinant "sylvatic plague vaccine" [RCN-F1/V307]) to placebo treatment in...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Tripp DW,Rocke TE,Runge JP,Abbott RC,Miller MW

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging diseases and environmental contamination are two of the leading hypotheses for global amphibian declines. Yet few studies have examined the influence of contaminants on disease susceptibility, and even fewer have incorporated the role of natural stressors such as predation. We performed a factorial study inve...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Kerby JL,Hart AJ,Storfer A

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change is expected to cause changes in precipitation quantity, intensity, frequency and duration, which will subsequently alter environmental conditions and might increase the risk of waterborne disease. The objective of this study was to describe the seasonality of and explore associations between weather, wa...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Harper SL,Edge VL,Schuster-Wallace CJ,Berke O,McEwen SA

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) is a virulent fungal pathogen that infects salamanders. It is implicated in the recent collapse of several populations of fire salamanders in Europe. This pathogen seems much like that of its sister species, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), the agent responsible for anuran ...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Parrott JC,Shepack A,Burkart D,LaBumbard B,Scimè P,Baruch E,Catenazzi A

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the end of 2016, Brazil experienced an unprecedented yellow fever (YF) outbreak. Clinical, molecular and ecological aspects of human and non-human primate (NHP) samples collected at the beginning of the outbreak are described in this study. Spatial distribution analyses demonstrated a strong overlap between human a...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Figueiredo PO,Silva ATS,Oliveira JS,Marinho PE,Rocha FT,Domingos GP,Poblete PCP,Oliveira LBS,Duarte DC,Bonjardim CA,Abrahão JS,Kroon EG,Drumond BP,Oliveira DB,Trindade GS

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gunnison's prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni) have been considered at greater risk from Yersinia pestis (plague) infection in the montane portion of their range compared to populations at lower elevations, possibly due to factors related to flea transmission of the bacteria or greater host susceptibility. To test the la...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Rocke TE,Tripp D,Lorenzsonn F,Falendysz E,Smith S,Williamson J,Abbott R

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of animal-assisted interventions in therapeutic programs is a growing phenomenon. Animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) involve a variety of species (dogs, cats, horses, domesticated birds, etc.) in primary health care. Despite their increasing application in a wide range of therapeutic services, the empirical ...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Chalmers D,Dell CA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many infectious diseases have a zoonotic origin, and several have had major public health implications. Contact with animals is a known risk factor for zoonotic infections, although there are limited data on disease symptoms and pathogens associated with contact with different animal species. The rise in pig productio...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Robertson G,Perry M,Vinh PV,Ngoc DTT,Thanh TPT,My PT,Thao HD,Rabaa M,Baker S,Woolhouse M,VIZIONS consortium.

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural infection of captive nonhuman primates (NHPs) with Trypanosoma cruzi (agent of Chagas disease) is an increasingly recognized problem in facilities across the southern USA, with negative consequences for NHP health and biomedical research. We explored a central Texas NHP facility as a nidus of transmission by c...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Hodo CL,Wilkerson GK,Birkner EC,Gray SB,Hamer SA

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human activities have been causing dramatic and unprecedented changes to the Earth's ecosystems, and are a primary factor associated with biological invasions. Disturbed and fragmented habitats allow some vector mosquitoes to thrive. The New Zealand landscape has been extensively modified since the arrival of humans, ...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Derraik JG

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Near real-time epidemic forecasting approaches are needed to respond to the increasing number of infectious disease outbreaks. In this paper, we retrospectively assess the performance of simple phenomenological models that incorporate early sub-exponential growth dynamics to generate short-term forecasts of the 2001 f...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Shanafelt DW,Jones G,Lima M,Perrings C,Chowell G

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Land-use change has transformed most of the planet. Concurrently, recent outbreaks of various emerging infectious diseases have raised great attention to the health consequences of anthropogenic environmental degradation. Here, we assessed the global impacts of habitat conversion and other land-use changes on communit...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Guo F,Bonebrake TC,Gibson L

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its emergence in China in 1996, highly pathogenic avian influenza virus subtype H5N1 has spread across Asia, Africa, and Europe. Countries had to promptly implement control and prevention measures. Numerous research and capacity building initiatives were conducted in the affected regions to improve the capacity ...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Costard S,Fournié G,Pfeiffer DU

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To diagnose respiratory disease among wild great apes, there is a need for noninvasive diagnostic methods. Therefore, we analyzed fecal samples from habituated chimpanzees from Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire. Samples had been collected during four distinct outbreaks: two with known aetiology (March 2004 and February...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Köndgen S,Schenk S,Pauli G,Boesch C,Leendertz FH

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans create ecologically simplified landscapes that favour some wildlife species, but not others. Here, we explore the possibility that those species that tolerate or do well in human-modified environments, or 'synanthropic' species, are predominantly the hosts of zoonotic emerging and re-emerging infectious disease...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： McFarlane R,Sleigh A,McMichael T

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tick-borne rickettsiosis is an important emerging disease in Panama; to date, there have been 12 confirmed cases, including eight fatalities. To evaluate the distribution of rickettsiae in Panamanian ticks, we collected questing and on-host ticks in urban and rural towns in elevations varying between 0 and 2300 m. A t...

journal_title：EcoHealth

authors： Bermúdez SE,Castro AM,Trejos D,García GG,Gabster A,Miranda RJ,Zaldívar Y,Paternina LE

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00